Sign-changing self-similar solutions of the nonlinear heat equation with positive initial value

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Abstract: We consider the nonlinear heat equation utDeltau=|u|alphau on mathbbRN, where alpha>0 and Nge1. We prove that in the range 0<alpha<frac4N2, for every mu>0, there exist infinitely many sign-changing, self-similar solutions to the Cauchy problem with initial value u0(x)=mu|x|frac2alpha. The construction is based on the analysis of the related inverted profile equation. In particular, we construct (sign-changing) self-similar solutions for positive initial values for which it is known that there does not exist any local, nonnegative solution.









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